Monday, May 18, 2026
So, the Chicago Public Library only has two delivery drivers for the whole city? I went down to our building library, which is rather moribund and dwindling and I got a book I put down there before, The Monkey's Wrench by Primo Levi, after reading about his translation of Kafka which depressed him so that he jumped off the spiral staircase in the building he grew up in. Anyway, I hope the library doesn't get erased in this dangerous and dark time, because the absence of books would be far more depressing than Kafka, though I know for Levi it was more the concentration camp that sent him over. But I wonder if there would be outrage in America. There's hardly any outrage for the ICE concentration camps or the ongoing genocides, and I read that few people actually read anymore, anyway.
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